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September 8, 2021 Meeting of the Governing Board...
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Good afternoon, I'd like to call to order
the Pima Community College Governing Board meeting of September 8,
2021.
The first item of business is our roll call. Mr. Silvyn, could
you please read the roll?
>> MR. JEFF SILVYN: Ms. Ripley?
>> MS. CATHERINE RIPLEY: Present.
>> MR. JEFF SILVYN: Ms. Garcia?
>> MS. MARIA GARCIA: Here.
>> MR. JEFF SILVYN: Mr. Gonzales?
>> MR. LUIS GONZALES: Here.
>> MR. JEFF SILVYN: Dr. Hay?
>> DR. MEREDITH HAY: Present.
>> MR. JEFF SILVYN: Mr. Clinco?
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Here.
>> MR. JEFF SILVYN: All board members are present.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Next is our public comment and call to the
audience.
The Pima Community College Governing Board welcomes comment on
issues within the jurisdiction of the college. Generally the total
time for public comment will be limited to 45 minutes and comments
will be limited to 3 minutes per individual. These time limits may
be modified by the board or board chair.
Individuals sharing comments are expected to communicate with
decorum and respect. Individuals who engage in disorderly conduct or
use divisive or insulting language may have their time reduced or
concluded by the board chair.
At the conclusion of the public comment, individual board members
may respond to criticism made by those who addressed the board, may
ask staff to review a matter, or may ask that the matter be put on a
future agenda. Members of the board, however, may not discuss or
take legal action on matters raised during the public comment unless
the matters are properly noticed for discussion and legal action.
Finally, be advised that the internal college processes are
available for students and employees for communication. Also, you
can e-mail the board with your comments or the chancellor's office.
The first individual on our list this evening is Wendy Erica
Worden.
>> Hello. So good to see you. Thank you so much for giving me
the opportunity to address you briefly this evening.
I'm Wendy Erica Worden. I'm the manager of community investment
at Tucson Electric Power Company. I wanted to take a few brief
moments to address you and first congratulate Pima Community College
for receiving the 2021 Go Green Award for innovation.
Secondly, I'd like to express our gratitude for the sponsorship
of the upcoming Rev It Up event we will be sharing with Pima
Community College in October.
First to the Go Green Award. This is an award series that we
have hosted for the last several years to really kind of give a
platform for our community partners to highlight the great things
that they are doing around the areas in sustainability, innovation,
education, and really Pima Community College has hit the mark with
all of those and has been awarded the Go Green Award for innovation.
To us it's really a hallmark of what Chancellor Lambert is
seeking to accomplish with his centers of excellence, and all of you
at Pima Community College, and really it's about current and future
industry around the electric transportation industry, both
residential and commercial. Also that the centers of excellence
themselves are energy efficient and built around those principles of
sustainability.
This is a virtual awards presentation that we will be hosting
sometime within the next two months, as soon as all of our awardees
are notified, but we were able to make the presentation to Chancellor
Lambert in person at your automotive center of excellence. Let me
tell you, it is quite an impressive location.
Then just second, briefly, is our partnership as one of the main
sponsors around Rev It Up coming in October. That's really just
about strengthening our community in general, but to show the support
for the centers of excellence and just all the ways that Pima
Community College is really helping all of the industries in Southern
Arizona prepare for the future workforce.
I'm happy to answer any questions, but I did just want to take a
moment to thank you all this evening for allowing me the opportunity
to formally present you all as kind of co-hosts of the award for Go
Green.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Thank you very much for coming and letting
us know. We are really thrilled to continue to be a partner with
TEP, and thank you for all the work that you do in the community as
well.
Next we have Amber Smith of the Tucson Chamber. Ms. Smith?
>> I don't see her listed as an attendee.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Okay. Then we will move on to Makyla
Hays.
>> Thank you. Good evening. My name is Makyla Hays. I lost my
notes already. This is starting well. Sorry about that.
I'm honored to introduce myself as the new PCCEA president. We
are looking forward this year to our (indiscernible) projects
throughout the year and are hopeful for a collaborative discussion
and working towards common solutions with administration in order to
benefit the PCC students and our community.
Larger items that PCCEA will be focusing on this year include the
classification and compensation study, the potential academic
workforce planning project in the board consent agenda today,
continued policy improvements and discussions on topics such as
equitable remote work policy, and having a more detailed and
collaborative discussion with administration on the budgetary trends
we brought forward last year.
PCCEA supports faculty in their work to serve students through
advocacy for equitable working conditions and compensation. Part of
this advocacy also includes coming to the board with issues that have
not been able to be addressed through internal channels or that we
feel bears your attention at the board level.
I would love to see a more formal way for PCCEA and the other
board-recognized representative groups to communicate more regularly
with the board. To that end, I have a request that I believe would
allow employees to feel more heard as well as help the board hold the
college responsible for true collaboration and shared governance.
If an employee brings an issue to public comment that the board
feels is significant enough to follow up on at a future meeting,
either via a report or a study session, I would love to see that
employee or employee group who brought the concern forward have the
opportunity to co-present the outcome of any discussions to the
board.
Thank you so much for your consideration and for your time
tonight. I look forward to working with you more this upcoming year.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Thank you very much. Congratulations on
your new role. You will be a terrific advocate leading the PCCEA.
Chancellor Lambert, is that something we can look at how to
integrate the individuals who are bringing concerns forward into sort
of the follow-up and when we close the loop? I know sometimes it
comes as a report, not necessarily a full presentation. Sometimes
it's an internal resolution.
Is there a way we can explore what some options may be to create
a stronger engagement?
>> DR. LEE LAMBERT: Absolutely. We are always open to exploring
those options. Just a reminder that because of the law change at the
state level, we have to be careful about recognizing certain groups
over other groups. Just that cautionary piece to keep in mind.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Hopefully, Makyla, you can come back as
this is getting reported out. It would be the first issue that's
been brought forward to let us know how it's working out.
>> DR. MEREDITH HAY: Amber is available.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Thank you. Amber Smith?
>> Sorry about that. Amber Smith, Tucson Metro Chamber. So
happy to be able to present a recent partnership with the college.
We host an annual small business celebration called the Copper
Cactus Awards where we really highlight the best practices of local
businesses in our local community.
This year we are so proud to partner with Pima Community College
with an award recognizing employee development program. Really, what
it's focusing on as part of our workforce development blueprint that
we recently launched that was completely data-driven to highlight
five of the largest things we can do as a community to support
workforce development.
One of them really spoke to employee retention as well as growth.
The college stepped up to support a new category called the employee
development program that recognizes those businesses that are giving
back to their employees, doing tuition reimbursement programs,
continuing education, as well, because we want to be able to best
highlight what businesses can do to really thrive and growing
employees is absolutely one of those top ways to do it.
We are so proud of the college for being our sponsor in this
category. Overall we had 255 businesses locally apply for a Copper
Cactus Award, and we are honoring those finalists and award winners
on October 1st in all of the different categories.
Again, it's really the college demonstrating what it means to
give back and engage in those best practices for the long term.
Again, thank you to the college for looking into the future as to
things that generally are going to have an impact not only today but
for tomorrow as well.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Thank you very much, Ms. Smith, for your
collaboration on that, highlighting the work of our employers in
partnership with the college. Thank you for bringing that forward
and sharing it with us this evening and the work you do.
Next we have our Governing Board recognition and awards. The
recognition of strategic planning team members will be led by Dr. Nic
Richmond.
>> DR. RICHMOND: Chairman Clinco, members of the board,
Chancellor Lambert, colleagues and guests. It is my pleasure to be
here this evening to offer my thanks to the strategic planning team
members who have served the last two years and actually continue to
serve for the upcoming year. Very, very lucky people.
The planning team has had a lot of work over the last two years.
So this is a group of people who are responsible for the review of
the mission fulfillment framework, gathering input from the
community, from employees, from students, and working to craft those
statements so we had a strong draft to bring forward for the board's
consideration late last year.
Building upon that work, they also focused their energy for
approximately a year on the development of the new strategic plan,
the draft plan of course for board approval.
Through that work, there has been endless conversations, very
difficult conversations on occasion. We have worked through to be
very open and frank with each other, talk about the things that are
working well at the institution, bring out different perspectives to
those areas through which we could improve so that through our
mission framework, through our strategic plan, we could position
ourselves with ambitious targets to fulfill our purpose of
transforming lives through affordable education.
I'm going to share a slide with the members of the team. You can
see now. I want to run through this list and highlight the people
who have done really all of the legwork and all of the hard work
developing those draft documents.
We used a stakeholder approach for strategic planning, so will
mention the stakeholder group that each one of these individuals
represented.
We have Joe Brewer, librarian, one of the representatives
selected by Faculty Senate. There are a number of other faculty
members here who I will mention. We have Montserrat Caballero,
representing Staff Council. Tim Cruz, biology faculty. Jim Craig,
representing the All College Council. Marcy Euler, representing Pima
Foundation. Laurie Kierstead-Joseph, representing adult education.
Hilda Ladner, representing diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Charlie McConnell from facilities. Lamata Mitchell for the
instructional areas. Ian Roark for workforce development. Marisa
Saxton from student affairs. Laurie Ann Schultz from PimaOnline.
Paul Schwalbach, who brought the communication lens to what we were
doing. Kenneth Scott, accounting faculty member. Anthony Sovak, who
the board has had the opportunity to hear from, my wonderful co-chair
in this whole process.
Daniel Soza from finance. Tal Sutton, math faculty member.
Last, but most definitely not least, Marci Walkingstick, director
within IT leading enterprise systems.
It is with the utmost thanks, I want to extend my thanks to these
people who have worked so very hard to ensure we had strong draft
documents to bring to the board's consideration. It is my absolute
pleasure to share their names with the board today.
Many of them are on the call today, and I know some are watching
the stream. Personally, thank you to everyone who has been involved.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Thank you, Dr. Richmond. On behalf of the
board, I want to thank each and every one of the team members who
brought their expertise and passion and vision and thought to the
deliverable and production of the documents that you brought to us.
It was an incredibly smooth process from the board perspective, but I
think we really ended with a vision and the way of articulating what
our institution is doing that has never been more powerful.
Thank you very much to you and every single person on that list
for the work that you have contributed to further enhance and advance
Pima College.
>> DR. MEREDITH HAY: Way to go. (Applause.) Yay, Dr. Richmond
and team.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Any other comments from other board
members?
Okay. Next we have our remarks from the Governing Board. I will
just go around the room. Ms. Garcia?
>> MS. MARIA GARCIA: Okay. First of all, I want to start off by
saying I don't want to offend anybody, so please understand. That
will kind of prepare you.
Anyway, I would like to take this opportunity to recognize a
group of individuals. This group of individuals has been at work
every day since the beginning of the COVID pandemic. They never
complained. These people, in my opinion, have been ignored and
underappreciated by this board and administration. Yet we take
credit for your efforts.
I also want to thank the previous vice chancellor of facilities
for initiating the plans for safeguarding our college community and
his teamwork that so diligently worked in carrying out their duties
in trying times.
Thank you to everyone on the facilities team, including our
safety personnel. You can be proud of your team efforts. I am aware
and sincerely appreciate all that you do every day.
Thank you.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Thank you, Ms. Garcia. Ms. Ripley?
>> MS. CATHERINE RIPLEY: My disclaimer is I have no AC in my
house. Thank you, fellow board members, faculty, staff, Chancellor,
administrators, everybody watching.
I'm actually very happy to be back after a short, yet hot, and
clearly not over summer break. First of all, I wish, before I start,
I have a lot of people to thank here for what they have done over the
summer, as did Ms. Garcia.
I wanted to send my deepest thanks to all of the employees that
held the fort down, taught classes, maintained campuses, continued
planning and strategizing, all of those things that are done behind
the scenes to get through the summer, to get through the last year of
COVID, and to plan for this fall.
A lot of these behind-the-scenes actions, which we are all
extremely grateful for, especially in the lightning speed in which it
was conducted, I really want to commend you and thank you all.
I'd also like to send out, lest we forget, and I don't think many
people on this call will forget, our deepest sympathies to the family
of Jacob Dindinger, whose young life was cut tragically short when he
was killed this summer in that horrific shooting in late July.
Jacob, one of our beloved EMT students, graduated only a year before
he lost his life in the line of duty in Tucson.
As a retired military officer, I cannot express strongly enough
the fact that he died a hero, serving his community and doing not
only what he was trained and educated to do here at Pima but doing
what he loved. My deepest sympathies and condolences.
Also, just quickly, we had so many things I can't list here that
we need to celebrate over the summer, in addition to getting through
COVID and surviving, and it's not over yet, a very hot summer and
challenging summer.
There are things that our faculty and staff and administrators
have done again behind the scenes without fanfare that I want to
mention, and I can't mention all of them. There's been so much and
hard work and attention to detail, first of all, to not only secure
but administer and track the elimination of student debt for 4,500
students.
I'm sure, Chancellor Lambert, I don't want to steal anyone's
thunder, but I really think it's worth mentioning a few times. It
was a tremendous boost for our community, especially those who would
not otherwise be able to afford continuing school let alone pay those
debts.
I am also excited for what Dr. Richmond is doing with her team
and especially with what you will soon see we are doing with the
climate action program, something that's extremely important, and I'm
proud of Pima Community College's taking the lead in trying to be
perhaps a hub for mitigating climate change in our community.
There are just so many other things. The Tucson Street Rod
Association, who donated $25,000. We did this really cool car show
here this summer. The CAD students who brought designs for Habitat
for Humanity over the summer. And our ongoing efforts to team with
Davis-Monthan, I'm speaking at the paramedic EMT graduation next
week, and I'm really honored to do that. There's a lot of cool
things we are doing, and we have so much more work to do in an
extremely challenging fall and going into 2022.
Just a few things I wanted to shout out, there are so many more,
I apologize if I didn't mention all of the departments, because they
were all doing cool things in and of themselves.
Thank you so much. Glad to be back.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Thank you very much. Mr. Gonzales?
>> MR. LUIS GONZALES: Yes, good evening, everybody out there
that are listening and attending our board meeting tonight.
I just want to acknowledge, as we all know in these challenging
times with the pandemic, acknowledge all those workers that have
taken not only the COVID test but also the vaccination efforts out
there. I think your commitment to address this pandemic COVID 19
virus is extraordinary.
I know a lot of you young staff and nurses and all those people
involved, I know it is dangerous. I know that I have, what do you
call it? One of my daughters is an LPN, and she's also done some of
that with the El Rio clinic, as well.
I also want to acknowledge all of those students that did return
to on-site class instruction in all the campuses that we have to be
safe and well out there, and especially a great super acknowledgement
to all the staff and faculty that are providing those on-site
instruction to our young people.
I do have a couple of my grandkids that have returned for the
second year for Pima. I know they love Pima, and they will continue
to be there, but there is only too of many of the young people out
there and what the college has to offer to us, to the community, but
to Pima County.
I really want to say thank you for making that commitment and
believing in the PCC college, but more important, utilizing and
capitalizing in reference to what's available on the opportunities
through Pima Community College at all levels.
Thank you.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Thank you very much. Dr. Hay?
>> DR. MEREDITH HAY: Thank you. I just want to say welcome back
to the students, the faculty, and the staff. I will echo the
comments of the previous board members, and congratulations to all
the hard work everybody has put forward this summer.
Thank you and welcome back.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Thank you very much. I also want to
welcome everybody back. We really do understand and know the
incredible amount of work and the complexity that the pandemic has
created in everybody's individual work environment.
We, as a board, are really appreciative of everything you are
doing to help with making sure that student success remains a
priority for this institution, day in and day out, and that's
everybody from facilities to in the classroom, from our police to the
contractors who are making sure that our facilities are cleaned on a
daily basis. Everybody who is involved in helping to deliver the
high quality education, we are so appreciative of everything you are
doing.
We know that it is complex and that it is fatiguing and it is for
I think everyone. So we are aware and we are really appreciative for
all of your incredible work.
I also want to just underscore the $2.7 million debt forgiveness
that the board was able to authorize. I think that's a huge thing we
were able to do to really help students who are really facing very
difficult choices about their future and whether to continue with
school.
I am just so thrilled that Chancellor Lambert and the team were
able to bring that forward and that the board was able to take swift
action to deliver that.
I also just want to note that the Arizona Association of
Community College Trustees held a summit two weeks ago, and it was in
partnership with the AC4, a single representative from each of the
community colleges who have been elected by their boards and all of
the board presidents had a convening to talk about the upcoming
legislature and legislative priorities that are facing all of the
different colleges across the state. I certainly learned a lot about
what's going on at other community colleges.
I know it's very easy to be in our community college silo, but to
hear the similarities and differences that other colleges are going
through and ways they have been able to overcome some of their
challenges during this period has been really inspiring. I'm hopeful
we can begin to discuss some of those strategies.
Finally, I just want to encourage all of our employees and our
students to get vaccinated. Since our last meeting, the Pfizer
vaccine has been fully authorized by the FDA. If you haven't been
vaccinated, please go and do that. Your safety has been a priority
for this board. We have, from the very beginning, really tried to
underscore and give direction to Chancellor Lambert that health and
safety needed to be the No. 1 priority, but we also are reliant on
everybody else to take action to help with that initiative, because
high tides in this case will rise all ships. Please get out and get
vaccinated if you haven't.
That concludes my comments. Next are administrative reports.
The first is our -- we will be changing our format a little. I will
give Chancellor Lambert a little opportunity to sort of do an
introduction and talk about this, but during our retreat over the
summer, we talked about how we could more effectively use this time
to really tease at the issues facing the college and inform the board
and the public about the things that we are facing in sort of these
big-picture issues.
Chancellor Lambert, do you want to give a preliminary
introduction?
>> DR. LEE LAMBERT: I'd be glad to, Mr. Chair. We are very
pleased to be able to present to the board a number of issues and be
able to do a deeper dive at the regular board meeting in addition to
our normal study session format.
So what you're going to see is probably one or two, maybe three
at the most during the administrative report section, but with a
little bit more deeper dive and allow the board to engage us more
around key topics. A lot will center around enrollment and student
success for obvious reasons.
This meeting, we are very pleased to talk about enrollment and we
are going to have Dr. David Dor� in a moment give you an update on
the great work that's been done leading up to the beginning of fall,
and David may even touch on what some of our future plans are, as
well.
So with that, I'm going to turn it back over to you, David, to
take us through the enrollment focus presentation.
>> DR. DOR�: Thank you, Chancellor. Good evening, Chairman
Clinco, members of the board, Chancellor Lambert, colleagues, guests,
and students.
I'd like to provide a brief overview of the current status of
enrollment at the college for fall 2021 and provide an update on our
short-term strategic enrollment management plan activities.
To begin, the college has been experiencing enrollment declines
over the past several years. The decline was only intensified by the
impact of the pandemic on our community and our students.
The effects of the pandemic have continued to impact many of our
learners with economic, medical, family, housing, and employment
hardships that prevent enrollment.
This first slide presents our enrollment data as of August 30th.
It shows approximately a 5% decline in our enrollment since last
fall. Now, since these numbers take a snapshot of the same time last
year, they will continue to change. For example, the daily
registration report from strategy, analytics, and research, STAR,
indicates that as of today our head count percentage is actually
looking a little better. We are down 4.71% decline from this time
last year. We are going to continue to see this change.
I also want to point out to the board that there are areas of the
college that are not included in these numbers. So these numbers do
not reflect dual enrollment, and I'm going to talk a little bit about
dual enrollment in a few minutes. They don't reflect adult basic
education or our full-year term workforce and training programs.
Now, in terms of demographic trends, we are not seeing any
significant change in our fall 2021 distribution based on race and
ethnicity as compared to last fall. We are just over 47% Hispanic
Latino as our largest demographic population.
Additionally, there has not been a significant change in
enrollment by gender. We report around 40 points, I think right now
it's 40.74 males and about 57.84% who identify as females.
Our next slide is from the National Student Clearinghouse showing
that U.S. community colleges as a whole experienced double-digit
declines during the pandemic and were disproportionately impacted by
the pandemic in terms of enrollment.
Now, this data here is from spring 2021 and the Clearinghouse
data for the fall is not yet available, but we will certainly be
tracking that.
Now, in terms of fall 2021 enrollment for Arizona community
colleges, the official enrollment numbers have not yet been reported.
However, we have some unofficial reports, and the data is mixed. You
know, for some colleges, Arizona colleges, are actually reporting
increases. Central Arizona College, for example, they rolled out a
free college initiative, and their enrollment is up.
Other Arizona colleges are reporting decreases in enrollment
compared to last fall. Dr. Bea, for example, he spoke with his
counterparts and spoke with one of his counterparts at Maricopa, and
Maricopa is reporting unofficially that they are down around 15%
compared to this time last fall.
I also met with Dustin Williams, the Pima County school
superintendent last Friday, to gain some insight into overall issues
at our K12s in Pima County. Superintendent Williams shared that some
K12 districts were down as much as 9% last academic year.
Fortunately, he said we are now seeing a bounce-back in K12
enrollment. Superintendent Williams is looking forward to continuing
our round-table discussions which we will have in the fall with the
K12 superintendents and principals to discuss collaborative
strategies and initiatives to support our high school students
transitioning to PCC.
What I'd like to do next is to highlight some of the initiatives
of the college to address our declining enrollment. The college has
instituted a one-year, short-term institutional plan to identify,
recruit, enroll, retain, and graduate students. There are some key
strategies from this short-term plan the college is continuing to
build on, and I just want to go over some of those strategies with
you.
One is to engage with students who stopped attending. So our
marketing and outreach department, for example, reached out to 40,000
stop-out students through e-mail, text, and web ads. That campaign
generated just under 1,900 responses of students, potential students
who asked for more information.
Likewise, student affairs proactively reached out to 8,325
students who applied to the college but did not register. Of that
number, 2,831 students have registered for classes. So that was
about 34% of the students that they reached out to.
Another key strategy is to address the students' financial
barriers to enrollment, and many of the board members talked about
the fact that the college has forgiven 2.7 million in student debt
for 4,500 students, and then we're continuing to distribute HEERF
funds directly to students, as well.
What we are going to do is we're going to track those 4,500
students, because we are starting to track now, and to see how many
of those students actually will re-enroll in the college. We will
certainly be keeping the board abreast of the effectiveness of that
initiative.
Another initiative is of course marketing and outreach to
students in our community. The college launched a 278,000 fall
marketing campaign, and also a social media and the number a
community outreach events as well.
Another key component of enrollment is of course retention and
student support initiatives. So we have continued to further
strengthen those wraparound student support and retention
initiatives. I will give some examples of initiatives we have
implemented there.
We have hired additional student success coaches, and these are
students that really provide extra support, very high-touch support
to those students who most need it. We piloted that and we found
that to be very effective, and so we have increased the number of
those coaches for the fall. Likewise, we added another full-time
student success faculty member for the fall, as well.
We have continued the lending of laptops and tablets to students
to help keep them on their pathways. We are offering a student
wellness assistance program with free counseling services, because we
are finding students are having a number of mental health and anxiety
and stress issues that they are dealing with.
We are continuing the work of the Breaking Student Barriers task
force. We are continuing to support the student food pantries. We
have implemented a Pima Connect which embeds academic success coaches
who are part of the support team for students. Then we have offered
a free counseling service. I think I already mentioned that.
And we are continuing to plan for childcare options. We now are
in the development of an agreement for a provider to provide
childcare services to launch at the Desert Vista Campus in the summer
of 2022.
As retention is essential to enrollment, the provost is going to
go into much more depth on our retention initiatives at next month's
board meeting, as well.
Now, the other initiative is to expand academic offerings,
particularly in those high-demand areas and around our centers of
excellence. So the college has continued the development of our
centers of excellence and their programs in the key sectors.
The good news is that these areas have seen increases in
enrollment compared to the fall of last year. So I will give some
examples.
We have just opened a brand new automotive center. Our
automotive enrollment is actually up 117% over fall 2020.
Information technology and cybersecurity is up 6% from fall 2020. We
had a big jump last fall as well. Hospitality leadership is up about
31% over fall last year.
We are now in the early phases of the COE expansion projects in
public safety and security at East Campus and the health professions
at West Campus, as well.
Dual enrollment is an area that we have seen substantial growth
over the last four to five years, and we are up about 75% over last
year. Last year we had 490 sections. Already in the fall we have
600 sections and we are estimating that we will have 700 sections by
the end of the year. Particularly dual credit in CTE courses is
substantially up. It's up from about 484 students in 2017 to 1,850
students currently.
Now, I just want to highlight just some of the partnerships. The
intergovernmental agreement with the Pascua Yaqui is in place. A
group of us visited the Hohokam site, which will be housing the
tribe's educational programming in addition to their education
center.
Pima is exploring having an education extension center there in
partnership with the tribe, which will house some CTE programs and
general education support courses in addition to our online and
virtual classes. We are also developing a liberal arts pathway with
the tribe for dual enrollment to PCC.
Another example of a partnership I'd like to site is the Bank of
America jobs initiative, which is really helping students complete
their education and enter the workforce, with a particular focus on
disadvantaged students. With the support of Bank of America, we are
using funds to accelerate the development and implementation of the
micropathways and opportunities in areas of manufacturing, IT,
construction, logistics, and emergency services. These programs we
believe will address many of the skills gaps to create pathways to
higher-paying jobs for our students.
Lastly, as an example from academics, our health science programs
have engaged with partners to meet workforce needs. They have nearly
700 students in 19 health services programs, which is an increase
from last year. The health sciences programs have worked with El
Rio, Banner, and other hospitals to develop grow-your-own programs
and are discussing numerous other programs, as well.
In terms of where we go from here, the college will continue
working throughout the fall to address enrollment and provide needed
student support services. Our late classes are beginning this month,
and that could positively impact our enrollment. So there is a
proactive outreach marketing for these late start classes. There is
also an e-mail and text campaign to re-enroll those 4,500 students
who had their debt forgiven.
Marketing is also launching a campaign for the new micropathways
this month. We are also still developing student support services
where those needs have arisen throughout the pandemic. And then we
will continue developing partnerships. The workforce development
team has been working to expand tuition reimbursement and
employer-supported student enrollment, and so we are going to
continue to really focus on that.
The college has already initiated budget discussions and
financial strategies to address our declines in enrollment, and we
continue to invest in program areas of high demand, such as
healthcare and IT and cybersecurity, advanced manufacturing,
aviation, and others.
Finally, in the long term, to continue to address enrollment, we
will begin the development of the 2022-2026 strategic enrollment
management plan starting this fall. And the short-term SEMP has been
a collaborative effort between multiple areas of the college. We
know every college department and every employee plays a valuable
role in supporting enrollment, retention, and completion.
I'm now happy to answer any questions that the board may have.
We also have key members of student affairs, academic affairs,
marketing and outreach teams as panelists to answer any questions you
may have.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Dr. Dor�, thank you so much for that
comprehensive outline of the work that's being done. I'm really
impressed, and I have some more detailed questions but I want to go
to some of the board members. Dr. Hay and then Ms. Garcia.
>> DR. MEREDITH HAY: Thank you, Dr. Dor�. Just for my own
education, as enrollments haven't quite bounced back, obviously not
just here but nationally, where are these people going? Are they
going into the workforce? Are they going somewhere else? Who are we
competing with?
>> DR. DOR�: Yeah, I think that's an excellent question and one
we are certainly exploring. We are finding, at least in Arizona,
there are some differences between kind of the urban larger districts
and some of the rural districts.
I think there is multiple factors, but certainly one is is that,
you know, there is a shortage of workers across the board, and I'm
thinking that some of our students or potential students and previous
students may be working two and three jobs. I think that would be
one. I think we are competing with employers right now, as well.
I don't know if anybody from the team wants to add anything.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Ms. Garcia?
>> MS. MARIA GARCIA: I guess my question is, Dr. Dor�,
enrollment has declined approximately, would you say, for the last
five years, what's the total percentage of decline in enrollment?
>> DR. DOR�: So we have -- I'm kind of going back, again, there
is different numbers that we can look at. We can look at head count,
we can look at FTSE, we can look at overall enrollment --
>> MS. MARIA GARCIA: Let's just look at FTSE.
>> DR. DOR�: For the most part, we have seen, for the last five
years, in the fall of 2019, we were a little -- we were somewhat
flat. In the spring of 2017, we are actually up a little, but we
have been down pretty much every -- I will just kind of go through
some -- we were down probably around, again, I'm just ballparking, so
please don't quote me, probably 6% in 2016. We were down around 2%
in 2017. Probably 4% in 2018. We were kind of flat in 2019. Then
we took that big hit in 2020, right?
And then, you know, now not as much, but I definitely -- I don't
know if David Arellano wants to give the total number? Or Nic?
>> DAVID ARELLANO: Thank you. Total number in terms of like the
overall declines from --
>> DR. DOR�: Over five years.
>> DR. MEREDITH HAY: Five years, yeah.
>> DAVID ARELLANO: I don't have that piece of data in front of
me, but we will consult with our strategy and analytics team and get
that information.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Looks like David Bea raised his hand. He
may have some salient information.
>> DR. DAVID BEA: Over the last five years it's down about 25%
and about 18 of that happened as a result of the pandemic. So it was
sort of slow, flat, slow, decline, and then big dropoff.
>> MS. MARIA GARCIA: The reason that I ask that question is that
I know that the pandemic had a big effect on what's going on right
now, and there is also, has been a decline in birth rates. But I
think in trying to do the enrollment, trying to increase it and
retain students, we have to go back and understand why those things
happened.
It's your guys' job to do that so we can keep the college going.
But the other part I wanted to ask, the other thing I wanted to ask
was how do you identify students that need additional services? Do
they come to you, or do you reach out to them?
>> DR. DOR�: Yes, Board Member Garcia, one of the things is we
have what we call an Early Alert program. I mentioned that Pima
Connect program, which is part of -- not just student affairs but
academics, Jeff Thies' team and so forth. What we do is we work with
faculty, we work with our student support services to identify those
students who are vulnerable.
I mentioned the academic success coaches that we have hired.
Those success coaches then get embedded with those students that we
believe are going to need more support services.
So it's really both, right? So any student can reach out for
those, that support, but we also proactively reach out to those
students to provide those extra services to them.
>> MS. MARIA GARCIA: Okay. One other thing, again, like I said,
it's your guys' job, I'm just saying what I think, but when I ask for
this aggregate information, and I could be wrong, but I believe that
certain parts of the city there is people or students that are
dropping out or not attending, taking an opportunity to get educated
within certain areas, and I think that we need to focus -- I'd like
to see the numbers with specific areas, not so much like all the
Hispanics, Latinos, Native Americans, but overall within sections of
the city. I think it would help us to identify how we can try to
reach them.
Anyway, that's all I have to say. Thank you for your
information.
>> DR. DOR�: I think that's excellent. Board Member Garcia, I
think one of the ways we can really take that approach is working
with the K12 districts, because many of our districts obviously some
of which have more significant challenges than others, and so I think
that's something that we are doing, working proactively with each of
the K12 districts.
Again, some have more I think, if you will, vulnerable students.
>> MS. MARIA GARCIA: David Arellano, are you guys working, are
you going to be working with eighth graders? Now when they come in
to as freshmens, they are going to be dual enrolled. Have you
considered that? And I'm done.
>> DAVID ARELLANO: Yeah, we have definitely considered it, Board
Member Garcia. In partnership with like the United Way Cradle to
Career, that's where we are partnering with not only like your
traditional high school but looking further downstream to say how do
we get that college-going culture earlier on. Yeah, we're definitely
having those discussions.
>> DR. DOR�: You're spot on, Board Member Garcia, we need to
recruit the seventh and eighth graders into the dual enrollment
freshmen classes. Especially now that we can expand the ninth grade,
that's definitely going to be a very valuable strategy.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Thank you. Ms. Ripley?
>> MS. CATHERINE RIPLEY: Thank you so much, Dr. Dor� and your
team, for this extremely comprehensive overview of what you have been
doing behind the scenes. It's excellent. I love that you're
looking, there is no stone unturned. Thank you for that. I really
would like to acknowledge all the work that all of the teams are
doing to get dual enrollment up 75% from last year. This has been
ongoing, just keeps increasing every year. So that's an enormous
success, and I think it's going to continue.
One of the things I wanted to mention that I actually just
recently learned is that for the viewing audience, most of the
community colleges do not offer, do not pay for that dual enrollment.
We soak up that cost at Pima Community College, and most schools
don't.
So the double-edged sword is we are getting more students in
through dual enrollment but we are soaking up that cost. So there is
pots of money that have to address that. But we are happy to do
that. So that's excellent.
Again, Earn to Learn, Cradle to Career, I know we are teaming
with those guys. Just keep doing what you're doing. I love that you
have reached out to all of those, what was it, like 45,000 students
got e-mails? This is exactly what you're doing. You're doing all
the hard work, which takes -- I can't imagine all of the time and the
resources and the people power that it took to do this.
Thank you for that, as well. One thing I just wanted to address
that Ms. Garcia brought up, I'm no expert, but I did read some
articles on this, like why, why, why is enrollment down, it is indeed
across the nation, I'm not discounting why Pima Community College in
particular's enrollment has been going down every year, but it is
nationwide. One of the articles I read, and you can expound on it at
some other point, is the fact that we are in this delayed effect,
weirdly enough, still, from the 2008/2009 great recession. It does
take that long. It's taken ten years for us to wake up and realize,
wow, this is precisely -- COVID is a microcosm of what's really been
happening over the last ten years, which is, like you said, people
are working one, two, three, four jobs to make ends meet, and it's a
domino effect where they can't go to school. Even if they get their
tuition paid, they still can't afford to not work.
So this is something that we all, I'm glad your team is
addressing, and we can see how we can help our community out.
But other than that, yeah, I mean, you're doing some Herculean
work here. Thank you, Dr. Dor�, for doing that. Those are all my
comments. Thank you.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Thank you. I have a couple questions.
Is there a way we can ramp up our early college programs? How
are those affected by the pandemic? I think about the Vail program
that was on our East Campus. I'm sure the pandemic affected how
that's being delivered. Maybe you can provide a little bit more
detail offline too, but that's one.
And two would be Yavapai Community College, they pioneered this
innovative idea of offering a free class to every resident of the
entire county. I really love that idea. It moved their enrollment.
How that will affect long-term enrollment, not clear, but it did have
a short-term effect. And then weighing that against the cost.
And then could you also tell us a little bit what programs -- you
gave us highlights of some amazing programs that are doing really
well, but could you tell us about programs that are most impacted by
the pandemic?
>> DR. DOR�: Yes, Chairman Clinco, I'd be happy to answer those
questions. I will start with your first one. I will ask James
Palacios to please chime in.
What we are doing really, really well in dual enrollment, the
pandemic did slow down our early college initiatives. We had some
pretty ambitious plans about launching early college at many of our
campuses, and that was all put on hold as a result of the pandemic.
So, James, do you want to share any of your insights there?
>> JAMES PALACIOS: Yeah, the discussions are starting back up
again, but now that we have the ninth and tenth grade eligible to
take dual enrollment courses, a lot of the discussion is around how
do we establish early college in a different modality. So in other
words, on high school sites and on the community college. So how do
we intermix both?
Right now that's what the discussion is. We are picking that
back up. So we should be hopefully working around trying to develop
our early college concept here real soon.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Looks like Chancellor Lambert, you have
your hand raised?
>> DR. LEE LAMBERT: Mr. Chair, I just wanted to elaborate on a
few points that have been made. I'd rather wait until David answers
all the other questions, and then I can come back and elaborate on
some of them.
David?
>> DR. DOR�: Yeah. And just so you know, the Vail Early College
program, because of the pandemic, is down about half. They normally
have about 90 students, and I think they are at 45, James. I think
Nina let me know that. Definitely the pandemic is, I think the K12s
concerned about bringing students on our campuses.
The second question, I think it was more of a suggestion, which I
love, Chairman Clinco, a free class, and I'd certainly champion that
if my colleagues are championing that, as well.
Then in terms of areas that we are seeing declines, we are seeing
some declines in our sciences, and it's a complex of a lot of
reasons. I will ask Dolores or Lamata to chime in, as well.
Some of our -- Dolores, I will just defer to you on some of the
specific areas.
>> DR. DOLORES DURAN-CERDA: Sure. Good afternoon, good evening.
As far as our low enrollments, sciences seems to be in a complex
situation. There are various reasons. There are some areas that the
face-to-face increased in enrollment and some that didn't. Some of
it has to do with the Delta variant and our faculty, adjunct faculty
in particular who felt hesitant about coming back face-to-face, that
fear.
And so some of these classes had to be moved to the virtual and
online realm. We did several surveys with students and student
forums in the spring. We asked them what modality would they like to
see more for the fall semester, and many of them said face-to-face.
We opened up 30% of our classes, about 30% this fall, and they
didn't fill. We think it's because of the Delta variant that has
caused an impact and fear.
But we will continue to see if we can open a little bit more for
the next semester, the spring semester. But being very strategic and
right-sizing and basing it on what the student needs are.
We also want to look at classes that are more focused with a
center of excellence, depending on the campus, so students don't have
to drive from one campus to another campus on the other side of town,
and they can take all of their classes at one campus.
We have also seen a decline in the social sciences areas, but the
deans and Lamata and I are looking very closely at the scheduling,
and again, talking to students. Today we had a forum with students
and faculty and staff, and the students were saying they really like
the virtual classes because either having to take care of children or
elderly, parents, or their work schedule, they really like the
virtual and online.
So we are getting a mixed reaction from our students of what
modality they prefer, but of course we want to make sure that we have
options available for all students. Yeah, those are part of the
reasons. It's a balancing act we are working on.
Lamata, I don't know if you have anything else to add.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: I really appreciate it. I know we are
short of time and we have to move on to the rest of the agenda, but I
do want to, one, articulate clear support for exploring this idea
around a free class, and whether that's something that is viable,
whether that fits into our budget modeling, and whether it's
something that we could do if possible. If we could just look at
that, I would love to hear back.
Second, are there additional -- I would really support additional
supports for those programs that are seeing the most significant
declines in terms of what we can do to really strategically focus on
increasing enrollment back up in those key areas. It's amazing to
hear, and congratulations to the programs that are doing really well.
I was really so glad to hear the hospitality leadership is seeing
such significant increases. We have heard so loud and clear from the
hospitality and restaurant industry that they are in desperate need
of employees, so it's great to hear that. Congratulations to Jewel
and the work she's doing in that whole program.
Again, those are my thoughts. Is there any final closing remarks
from any other board members before we move on?
>> MS. MARIA GARCIA: Thank you, David.
>> DR. LEE LAMBERT: Mr. Chair?
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Ms. Garcia has one final comment.
>> MS. MARIA GARCIA: Thank you, David, and your team for doing
such a great job.
>> DR. DOR�: Thank you, Board Member Garcia, and I want to
acknowledge the team, they have done all the work. Thank you to the
team.
>> DR. LEE LAMBERT: So I want to thank David and his team, and I
think what you're hearing is, and I think it goes back to Board
Member Ripley's point, if you look at where Pima is, comparatively
speaking, the declines that we have experienced are more in line with
what you're seeing across the country. So this is much deeper than
just Pima Community College and our community here.
I think the issue has a lot to do with the types of students we
are in service to, as many community colleges are in service to
low-income, disadvantaged populations, I think this is why the free
community college piece is becoming so essential as part of the
conversation to address that. It's a system problem is my point.
I think what you're seeing in terms of especially the humanities
and liberal arts area, there has been a decades-long decline in
enrollment in these areas. This is not unique to Pima. It's
something we have to look at and rethink the liberal arts in this new
reality.
What you're seeing on the center of excellence side is an example
of this. We retooled those areas, and what are we starting to see?
Enrollments are going up. We have modernized, integrated more
technology, made sure we are supporting the faculty with professional
development, built partnerships. Those are recovering very nicely.
I think all of those come into play. Then we have to remember,
there is increased competition now. The Tucson market is being
inundated by colleges and universities. We have to face that
reality.
We have SNHU here, one of the largest mega universities. ASU,
another mega university. Grand Canyon, another mega university. You
can go down the line.
We have been attracting the mega universities into this market.
We have to not lose sight of the competition. I think that's why
this focus on micropathways and really getting into the employer
workplace is going to become important, making it easier for a worker
to want to be a student. These are all the things that we are
working through.
I will hit this last piece. I think we have to carefully look at
this whole free class versus our budget piece, because when you look
at enrollment, some colleges are doing this because they need to get
their expenditure limitation up. To do that, you've got to get more
students. But the tradeoff is you're collecting less tuition and
fees.
So we are constantly straddling those two pieces, and the
advantage they have that we don't have is they get state support. We
get no state support. We would be essentially giving up another
revenue source which they have and we don't have.
Dave is looking at all of this. Dave Bea is following up on this
to look at how we might see what we can do. I just want you to know
that. Thank you.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Thank you very much.
Now we are moving on to reports by representatives of the board.
Each member has five minutes. Because we are getting tight on time I
will give you 30 seconds heads-up when you're running to the end of
the time.
First report is from our adjunct faculty representative, Sean
Mendoza. Mr. Mendoza?
>> SEAN MENDOZA: Chairman Clinco, Chancellor Lambert, members of
the board, honored guests. With the fall semester in full swing,
adjunct faculty are excited to once again reconnect with the
students.
We appreciate the board's continued focus on safety of our
students, faculty, and staff. In doing so, adjunct faculty feel we
can stay more focused on the success of our students.
We are also looking forward to engaging with administration on a
variety of different topics that can make a significant impact in
instruction, namely professional development for adjunct faculty.
We are pretty excited about that. I do look forward to providing
a report on this for future items in the months to come.
Thank you for your time. This ends my report.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Thank you very much. Next we have our
faculty report, Denise Reilly.
>> DENISE REILLY: Thank you. Good evening, Chair Clinco, board
members, Chancellor Lambert, colleagues and guests. My name is
Denise Reilly, and I'm the new Faculty Senate Board of Governors
representative.
I am student success faculty, and I have been lucky enough to be
guided by former representative Brooke Anderson. I have been a
faculty senator for several years, most recently as Faculty Senate
secretary, and began as an adjunct faculty for the college in 2004.
I'm also Phi Theta Kappa advisor and have spent the last several
years in student affairs as a career counselor and ed support faculty
counselor, and have spent the last 22 years in Tucson in public
education.
I look forward to serving you in this new role. Just a few
points that I made in the Board of Governors report. We have some
newly elected positions mentioned in the board report. Probably of
most importance is our new Faculty Senate president, Rita Lennon,
instructional faculty for clinical research.
A summary of some of the items shared, the teaching strategies
workshop was held in August in multiple modalities and was a success.
Another successful event for faculty by the Teaching and Learning
Center and the Faculty Senate Systemic Justice Action Committee began
today, the virtual all college, we have heard the term before,
UnTeaching and UnLearning Summit for the first time. As of early
this afternoon we had 125 faculty, students, administrators, and
staff RSVP and each session is averaging between 30 and 45
participants so far today. It goes on for the next two days.
I had the privilege of co-presenting in an afternoon session with
a colleague this afternoon, and I was delightfully surprised and
happy to see so many in attendance. I'm sure we will hear more about
that with a future report.
I will continue one of Brooke's great insights was to share
notable accomplishments by faculty in our next report. I'd like to
just close with on behalf of the Faculty Senate, I'd like to close
with this statement discussed in our last Faculty Senate meeting as
this will likely be a standing item each month. Here is the
statement, and then that will be my time.
Faculty senators are approached more frequently by our colleagues
and constituents regarding employee pay at the college. We
understand finances are especially volatile, given the depressed
levels of enrollment college-wide and the ongoing pandemic, but
faculty senators are concerned with the current allocation of funds.
The Faculty Senate is interested in hearing from faculty
colleagues on the class and comp faculty steering committee, having
officers collaborate during their administrative meetings with
members of the ELT, and exploring how faculty, staff, and
administration can work together on how to allocate funds in ways
that will optimize academic excellence and student success.
With that, I thank you very much for allowing me to be the newbie
here, but not really new for long. Thank you.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Thank you very much for that report, and
welcome aboard. We really look forward to getting to know you better
each month.
Next we have Jeff Thies with our administrative report.
>> JEFF THIES: Good evening. Happy International Literacy Day.
Chairman Clinco, members of the board, Chancellor Lambert, colleagues
and guests, students. This is the administrative report for
September.
First I'd like to talk a little bit about a group that were
accepted into the third cohort of the Gardner Institute's Equity in
Retention Academy this summer. Amanda Abens, Jacqie Allen, Ozlem
Kacira, Hilda Ladner, and myself spent time throughout five weeks in
July and August. Initial phase of the academy work was subject
matter experts from the Gardner Institute and peers from other
colleges in the cohort.
Efforts of those five weeks will help support not only the
barriers task force but also the new SEMP and other equity
initiatives throughout the college.
Other notable pieces of information, we have a Fulbright scholar.
The hospitality leadership team is pleased to welcome its first-ever
Fulbright scholar in residence, Chef Patricia Mejia-Cairo, from the
Dominican Republic. Her passion for food and the hospitality
industry led her to study culinary arts. She joined the culinary
world with Mausi Sebess Cooking School in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
She graduated as a culinary arts and pastry and bakery professional
in 2009. She has been a chef instructor since 2015, having taught at
the Instituto Tecnico Superior Comunitario and the Pontific
Universidad Catholica Madre y Maestra.
Lamata Mitchell and Edgar Soto selected to the Aspen Rising
Presidents Fellowship. Selected to participate in the 2021 and 2022
Aspen Rising Presidents Fellowship. A rigorous process, considered
their abilities to take strategic risks, lead strong teams, and
cultivate partnerships. The Aspen Institute engages a select group
of fellows each year in this intensive applied executive leadership
program. Congratulations Lamata and Edgar.
Next, our provost, Dolores, was voted to be on the national Phi
Beta Kappa senate, one of the most prestigious academic honor
societies. The senate is selected by the Triennial Council. A
representative group of members convened every three years to carry
out the business of the society. Congratulations, Dolores.
Last on the award front is the Helping Hand Award. Stephen Ebel
from the Curriculum Quality Improvement team received a Helping Hand
award, helping other colleges create assessment dashboards and their
assessment data.
After sharing general education dashboards at other forums, other
colleges from around the country asked Stephen for his assistance in
configuring the system we use for assessment. Excellent, Stephen.
Pandemic response efforts, it has taken a village. Many of the
employees worked to provide guidance and recommendations,
continuously adjusting return to campus and work sites and the start
of the fall semester. Though there are too many employees to
acknowledge individually, both the pandemic advisory group and the
mask protocol group were instrumental in recommending and
implementing plans and protocols for the fall. Thank you for
everybody that participated on those teams for your leadership and
effort.
That concludes my administrative report.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Thank you very much.
Staff report, Michael Lopez.
>> MICHAEL LOPEZ: Thank you. Can you hear me? A brief report.
Chairman Clinco, Governing Board, Chancellor Lambert, community
members, colleagues and guests.
I want to announce our newly elected Staff Council officers.
Staff Council vice-chair, Dorothy Netherland. Secretary, Erica
Martin. Communications officer, Christopher Rodriguez. And roll
keeper, Charlie M.
Thank you very much, and I appreciate everyone's efforts to get
through these difficult times and it's good to see that everyone is
doing that. Thank you.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Thank you. We appreciate the update.
I want to welcome student representative, Colin Bryant, who is on
the call, but is not presenting this evening. Welcome, Mr. Bryant.
We look forward to hearing your perspective on the issues facing the
student body.
Next is our chancellor's report. Chancellor Lambert?
>> DR. LEE LAMBERT: Good evening, everybody. I'd like to first
start out and say thank you all for the incredible work you have done
throughout the past year and leading to getting us started for the
fall. I know it's not the fall we were hoping. Who knew that the
Delta variant would have the kind of impact it's having on our
community and on our college. Your patience and perseverance is much
appreciated.
I also want to recognize, the board last year, you recognized our
employees with the Strive and Beyond award. I appreciate the fact
that you have gone to recognize the effort that our employees have
put in for the success of our students and college. I look forward
to the board continuing that level of appreciation.
Also, I just want to thank Nic's team. You thanked everybody. I
want to say thank you. Thanks to your leadership, along with
Anthony's, the whole group, we have a new strategic plan. It's much
better than the one we had before, not that the one before wasn't
bad, this was even a newly enhanced improved version.
Thank you for that. I want to thank the pandemic team as well,
advisory team, thanks to their combined leadership. We have
weathered the storm really well to this date. You know, I will share
just a few quick data points. To this date, we have only had three
hospitalizations of Pima employees, resulting in just one death.
It's never good to say positive things when people die, but also
recognize that we have done a really solid job of managing this
crisis, and I look forward to us continuing to do that.
I echo your words, Mr. Chair, please, please go get vaccinated.
That is our single-best way not only for ourselves but protect our
friends, family, loved ones, and colleagues, and our students.
Just want to acknowledge and thank you, Board Member Ripley, for
doing this. Jacob Dindinger. What folks may not realize about
Jacob, he studied with the college prepandemic and his learning was
interrupted. He didn't give up. He's the kind of student that is
really a model student for all students but really for all employees.
He came back, persevered, and he got his EMT training completed
at PCC. It's so unfortunate what happened, but I think we should
remember him as someone who really exemplifies what it is to commit
to one's future, and for that I just want to thank the PSI faculty
and staff for the great work they do in supporting the Jacobs and so
many other students who end up working in our community and being
EMTs and paramedics and police officers, firefighters, et cetera.
Also, I want to recognize the work of Bruce Moses and his team,
along with our curriculum quality improvement team. They have helped
guide us through the monitoring reports we had to submit to the
Higher Learning Commission. We are moving well forward. We have
done a complete turnaround, but that would not happen without
Dr. Moses and his team and just everybody, Wendy Weeks, Dr. Weeks,
and others. I just want to acknowledge that.
I'll be glad to just send this little brief executive summary
that summarizes some of that work. I believe we sent you all reports
that came back from the HLC, as well. I just want to thank TEP for
their incredible partnership and recognizing us with the Go Green
Award. Thank Amber Smith and the Tucson Metro Chamber for their
partnership. We are so honored to be able to be one of the hosts for
one of the awards and recognition events coming up.
I could just go on and on. I think Board Member Ripley laid out
some of the great accomplishments that have happened recently over
the summer, and really, as we were moving -- there is so much more.
There is so much good going on at Pima that we could fill up board
meetings just discussing that.
I want us not to lose sight of that part of the equation.
Sometimes what we talk about are the things that have yet to be done
or need to be done. Let's not forget the things that have been done.
They have been great things. We have come a long way. Our Pima
Community College, your Pima Community College, we are seen as one of
the nationwide leaders for a number of areas. We are on the
forefront of advocating for free community college. They are asking
our advice and our perspective in helping shape that as it goes
forward. We should be very proud of that.
The fact that we are taking data and evidence approach to things,
class comp is an example of that, looking forward to sharing those,
the data and evidence from that work. I want to thank Hilda. We
just completed our DEI climate assessment. We look forward to at
some point sharing that out.
Overall it's positive news, but there is room to improve and grow
there. Look forward to sharing that. And so many other things.
Again, welcome back. Look forward to the start of this new year.
We are looking forward to working with each and every one of you to
continue to move Pima forward in a very positive way to impact our
community. Thank you.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Thank you very much, Chancellor Lambert.
Our information items are posted on the agenda. We won't go
through them any longer, but you can find them there.
Next is consent agenda, which is a grouping of all of the items
posted on the agenda with links to all of the detail.
Do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda?
>> DR. MEREDITH HAY: So moved.
>> MS. CATHERINE RIPLEY: Second.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Discussion?
Hearing none, all in favor of the motion signify by saying aye.
(Ayes.)
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Anyone opposed? Hearing none, the motion
passes unanimously.
On to the action items. First is consideration of the board
self-assessment 2020/2021. Mr. Silvyn, do you want to read the
recommendations from the chancellor?
>> MR. JEFF SILVYN: Thank you, Mr. Chair. The chancellor
recommends the Governing Board approve the report on the 2020/2021
self-assessment.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Do I have a motion to approve?
>> DR. MEREDITH HAY: So moved.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Second?
(Second was made.)
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Discussion from any members of the board?
Okay. Hearing none, all in favor of the motion?
(Ayes.)
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Opposed? Hearing none, the motion passes
unanimously.
Next is the consideration of the Governing Board priorities,
2021/2022. Mr. Silvyn?
>> MR. JEFF SILVYN: The chancellor recommends that the Governing
Board approve the proposed list of board strategic priorities for
2021 through 2022.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Do I have a motion to approve the
recommendation?
>> MS. CATHERINE RIPLEY: So moved.
>> DR. MEREDITH HAY: Second.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Discussion? Any comments or conversation
from the members of the board?
>> MS. MARIA GARCIA: I'd like to know if -- I'm okay with what's
there, but can we add other stuff later on?
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Sure. I absolutely think that it is
completely appropriate to -- what if we every three months we
actually maybe publicly visit this document and see how we're doing
and if we need to add or amend. This came out directly from our
retreat.
>> MS. MARIA GARCIA: Okay.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Board Member Ripley captured the
information from our discussion and actually typed up this document.
So this is our own board-generated priorities and goals. I think it
is absolutely appropriate to revisit and see how we are doing and add
or change based on how that's going.
Does that sound reasonable to everybody?
Andrea, if we can make sure we get it onto the calendar, agenda
calendar moving forward. Maybe we can do it every four months so
we're hearing it quarterly.
Any other discussion or questions?
Okay. All in favor of the motion, signify by saying aye.
(Ayes.)
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Opposed? Hearing none, the motion passes
unanimously.
Next is the consideration of the chancellor's evaluation
2020/2021. Mr. Silvyn?
>> MR. JEFF SILVYN: The chancellor recommends the Governing
Board approve its report on the chancellor's 2020/2021 evaluation.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Do I have a motion to adopt the
recommendation?
>> DR. MEREDITH HAY: So moved.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Second?
>> MS. CATHERINE RIPLEY: Second.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Discussion?
Hearing none, all in favor of the motion, signify by saying aye.
(Ayes.)
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Anyone opposed, signify by saying no.
>> MS. MARIA GARCIA: No.
>> MR. LUIS GONZALES: No.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: The motion passes 3-1 with Board Member
Garcia and Gonzales voting in opposition.
Next is consideration --
>> MR. LUIS GONZALES: I want to make a comment.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Please, go ahead.
>> MR. LUIS GONZALES: I just want to make a comment in reference
to the goals. I really believe that --
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Mr. Gonzales, why don't we open the item
and then we will have the discussion on the goals since that's the
next item.
>> MR. LUIS GONZALES: Okay.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: The next item is the consideration of the
chancellor's annual goals, objectives and timeline, 2021 to 2022.
Mr. Silvyn?
>> MR. JEFF SILVYN: The chancellor recommends Governing Board
approve chancellor's annual goals, objectives and timelines for 2021
to 2022.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Do I have a motion to adopt the
recommendation?
>> DR. MEREDITH HAY: So moved.
>> MS. CATHERINE RIPLEY: Second.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Discussion? Mr. Gonzales, please go
ahead.
>> MR. LUIS GONZALES: As I mentioned, in reference to the goals,
I read it thoroughly, but I think I have questions. I strongly
believe as a board member I think all of us should have had input in
reference to the finalization. As I read through the board docs, it
still showed up as a draft.
But I strongly believe that chancellor's goals not only, each of
us should have had input, but also I think the public should have an
input in reference to the chancellor's goals as well too.
I think they are the people that elected us but they also need to
know what is going on with Pima. Are we going the right direction?
Are we not going the right direction?
Those, as I mentioned before, and I will say it again, those are
the stakeholders, stakeholders that have the right to know but more
important have the right and an opportunity to have input. That's
one of the things that I want to express in reference to my concern.
It's not a major one, but I think I was neglected to have an
opportunity, but also I think the stakeholders should have an
opportunity as well too in reference to what is the plan for
chancellor's goals.
The last thing I just want to say is that I know the majority of
it is how is going to do the work, but more important, needs to be
quantifiable in reference to the check and balances. I'll give you
an example. It is within the goals as well too, but addressing
enrollment. It's nothing new. We have talked about it since we have
been here two-and-a-half years. But even before that.
I think we really need to input and insert reference to the
changes, making it more feasible, percentagewise, increment of the
enrollment status, the true status in reference to the community,
share with the public.
Because as we all know, I will say it again, Pima Community
College is a public institution, and the public has a right and must
know in reference to what is the true numbers out there. Thank you.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Thank you very much. Dr. Hay?
>> DR. MEREDITH HAY: Just so those in the audience know clearly,
the board has a very clear process and procedure. Every year we meet
as a board in our summer retreat to discuss not only board priorities
but chancellor goals.
We discussed those goals extensively for half a day. We all
agreed on them. I think Board Member Ripley can respond to this,
because she was the person taking the notes. But it was clearly
defined and clearly decided that we have a process we follow. All
board members were in the room and all agreed on the goals.
So there is absolute transparency across the board. If any of us
want additional input on the goals of the chancellor, we can work and
talk directly with the chancellor and with the chair to talk about
that.
But we had that meeting I'm thinking back in May. So there was
plenty of time to further discuss goals of both the board and the
chancellor, and we have a clear process and procedures to do that.
At no time has any of this information ever been held back from
the public. We are totally 100% transparent. All the enrollment
numbers are transparent to anybody who wants to know them.
Please contact the chancellor's office, and they will be glad to
their that with you. All that information is transparent and we need
to follow our procedures. We have procedures at the board about how
we do board goals each year and how we do chancellor's goals each
year, and we follow those procedures clearly, and we started that
back in April or May, and so everybody had an opportunity to
participate.
We can change those as we move forward, but to any way suggest it
wasn't transparent and not every board member wasn't involved, that's
absolutely not true. We were all in the room. We all agreed on
these board and the chancellor's goals. And there we go.
It was absolutely, absolutely transparent.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Ms. Garcia?
>> MS. MARIA GARCIA: I'm going to, to Dr. Hay, it's not that it
isn't transparent, Dr. Hay, nor that we did not have an opportunity,
you're correct in that assumption, but, okay, for us, I guess
unfortunately, I'm going to only speak for myself, is that I wasn't
finished -- I honestly misunderstood, okay?
So I guess what I would like to see, and the chancellor has
agreed, I'm going to submit my request to him, and if he tells me
he's going to consider those, then we can discuss it, I will go ahead
and approve what we have now, but it will be amended.
Is that fair? Or do we hold off until next board meeting to
approve it? I don't know.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Chancellor Lambert?
>> DR. LEE LAMBERT: So absolutely, Board Member Garcia, I
welcome your input and to review that. Hopefully we can schedule a
time for you and I to sit down and chat as we work through some of
those and see how they already connect to what's here.
If they don't connect with here, let's look at how we can
integrate, just with the board priorities, the chancellor's goals can
also be modified along the way. I'm totally open to that.
>> MS. MARIA GARCIA: Okay.
>> MR. JEFF SILVYN: Mr. Chair, just a quick point of order, just
to be clear, of course, the chancellor by himself wouldn't amend
these, but if the board upon further review wants to make an
adjustment later on, that of course would be within the board's
purview.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: I believe that maybe some of the items
that are outlined in Ms. Garcia's list are encompassed in -- they are
just more specific. My hope is there is a resolution and then we can
have a discussion either at the next meeting or in the November
meeting if we need to make an amendment or if there is something we
need to update.
I mean, it's an evolving, working document, but it's the tool by
which we measure the chancellor's performance. We use it, just to
remind the public what we do each year is we adopt these goals and
then at the end of the year, we conduct an evaluation of the
chancellor's performance based on a series of performance standards
and these specific goals.
So they become a benchmark by which we can measure. There are
other colleges who don't do this, and then at the end of the year
people are upset that things didn't happen. Well, they weren't
clearly defined.
This is the mechanism by which this board can hold Chancellor
Lambert accountable for detailed outcomes that are measurable.
That's really the intent of this process.
Again, I'm really glad to hear Ms. Garcia and Chancellor Lambert
are going to sit down to try to work through that list and then come
back with things you may want to add. Okay.
Any more discussion? Ms. Ripley?
>> MS. CATHERINE RIPLEY: I think it's a good discussion, because
clearly there was a communication gap, because we did have a two-day
retreat, decided on the goals, voted on them.
I did take the notes and drafted them up, and the draft was so
that people could make grammatical changes and format changes, but so
apologies, Mr. Gonzales, if there was some misunderstanding. This
was my first board retreat. But I was under the understanding that
they were approved at the retreat, and we took the summer off and
today we are approving them, and they were in the board packet last
week.
But with that said, we move forward and we take -- it's a living
document, so we can add and change and discuss that. Thank you.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Chancellor Lambert, do you have another --
>> DR. LEE LAMBERT: Let me just put the back-end side of this
for a moment. The HLC expects us to engage in integrative planning.
If you go back to, I will use a snapshot in time, from the Futures
Conference we invite the community in, students are there, we have
staff, faculty there, as well as community members.
Out of that comes this past year came our strategic plan. Then
we have my goals are developed in alignment with that. I asked my
team for their input to make sure things are in alignment. I trust
that they are in conversations with their teams that help feed up to
that back-end process, and then we develop a set of goals that we
then, that I present to all of you during the retreat, and then
you're inputting into that, we made modifications of what you see
here today.
So it is a multi-month process that's connected to larger pieces
like the strategic plan, like the master plan, and other plans. So
it's not done in isolation.
I just want everyone to know that. By the way, this is something
that Pima was not doing before my arrival. As you noted, Mr. Chair,
a lot of places don't do this, either.
So we are leading the way in terms of board priorities,
chancellor goals, focus around planning, and so forth. I don't want
us to lose sight of that. With that said, there is always room to
improve, to make sure we are addressing the opportunities and
challenges ahead.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Thank you very much.
With no further discussion, all in favor of the motion, signify
by saying aye?
(Ayes.)
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Opposed? Please indicate by saying no.
>> MS. MARIA GARCIA: Abstain.
>> MR. LUIS GONZALES: No.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: THE motion passes 3-2 with Mr. Gonzales
voting no and Ms. Garcia abstaining.
Request for future agenda items? Ms. Garcia?
>> MS. MARIA GARCIA: No. I'm going to send it to you.
>> MR. DEMION CLINCO: Thank you very much.
With that, the meeting is adjourned. Good night, everyone.
Thank you for everything. Thank you, Chancellor Lambert.
>> MS. MARIA GARCIA: Thank you.
(Adjournment.)
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